Its thesis is that ‘development and underdevelopment are not only comparative terms, but they also have a dialectical relationship to each other.’ The reasons for African ‘underdevelopment’ were not a result of nature or African ‘culture,’ as bourgeois ideologues past and present would hold, but of the devastation brought first by European slavery and later by European colonization.
Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is universally described as a classic of Black political thought, African history, and Marxist political economy, and as formative in the field of African Studies.
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